ACLU Hearts Freedom…Sometimes

It’s always fun to pick on the ACLU. I mean, let’s just look at a few of it’s greatest hits from the past week and half, shall we?

In case you were wondering whether you can ask the state to let you change your gender on your birth certificate, just whenever you feel like it, you can’t. In order to switch genders, you totally have to have…ahem…the correct parts for that gender or the state doesn’t see fit to declare you. This seems to be a good policy, since, you never know when you’ll wake up feeling a little female-y, change your birth certificate and then have to change it again when you decide the panties are too skimpy. But, if you’re not of this persuasion, the ACLU is on your side.

Speaking of ladyparts, the ACLU would like you to know that they’re spending your donation money fighting for your kid’s right to wear a bracelet that says “boobies” to school. I actually think this might be a Title IX thing. I mean, how better to make sure teenage boys can’t concentrate in school than to have a bunch of teenage girls wear bracelets that call attention to their breasts or breasts in general?

Are you a fan of voting for the things that happen in your city? Do you like the ability to cast a vote in your own interest when your city, you know, decides to maybe put up those red light cameras that everyone loves so much but the National Institute for Highway Safety says totally saved a bunch of lives last year? Well, too bad. Since the ACLU doesn’t like your state’s bright idea to allow cities to vote for the opportunity to define their own safety precautions and: execute home rule, they’ll totally sue the pants off you before you even have the opportunity to debate the merits.

In the United States, we have this little thing called the Constitution. It has this little thing called the Bill of Rights. Contained within the Bill of Rights is the Freedom to Exercise Religion, and the last time I checked, it was still applicable to pretty much everyone. Sure, there are lots of liberals who’ve made it their life’s work to read “between the lines” seeking out “penumbras” and “emanations” that fit pretty much every ridiculous behavior they can think of, helping to redefine those behaviors as “rights,” even though, I’m pretty sure that word doesn’t mean what I think they think it means. Common sense would totally tell you that if a right is explicit in the Bill of Rights that it totes trumps a right that’s not, right?

The American Civil Liberties Union and its “pro-choice” allies want to force all hospitals in the country to perform abortions.: They are claiming that a bill being debated in the U.S. House this week should be defeated or amended simply because it shores up existing federal conscience protections.

HR 3 would codify a federal law that has existed temporarily for many years.: It prohibits government entities from discriminating against health providers because they object to abortion.: Abortion advocates are outrageously claiming that an “emergency exception” provision is needed to require maternity health providers to perform abortions that are supposedly medically necessary.

Such assertions are nothing more than an attempt to compel people to cooperate in all abortions.: In effect, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to force women to have their babies delivered by abortionists by forcing all pro-life health providers out of the medical field.

This is what I’m talking about: the ACLU is attempting to pit the explicit right to Free Exercise of Religion against the “implicit” right of every woman to have an abortion whenever, wherever. Catholic doctors, and by extension, Catholic hospitals, are required by the diocese to comply with Catholic beliefs, which include, shockingly (at least to the ACLU) the idea that life begins at conception and abortion is the killing of an innocent human being. They simply won’t do abortions, because they won’t be complicit in that killing. For Catholics, that’s a core concept in their belief system, and, one would assume, given the Free Exercise of Religion being such a central tenet in the First Amendment, that it would be clear they wouldn’t have to. But that’s not what the ACLU believes. Clearly, according to the ACLU, every hospital in the country should be forced to forgo their beliefs, go against their consciences and perform abortions, because – and this is key – anything less would be infringing on other people’s rights.

Now, sure, this is par for the course for the ACLU. Everyone knows they hate this sort of stuff and will go out of their way to make sure people aren’t free to practice any tenet of their religion that will come into conflict with their liberal beliefs. Clearly. They never stick up for the right to practice religion.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last night filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit urging the court to uphold a ruling that blocked implementation of a discriminatory and unnecessary Oklahoma state constitutional amendment that prohibits courts from applying – or even considering – what is broadly described as Islamic “Sharia law” and “international law.”

The measure, officially titled the “Save Our State Amendment,” was temporarily enjoined last year by a lower court for blatantly disfavoring an entire faith and denying Oklahoma’s Muslims access to the judicial system on the same terms as every other citizen. The ACLU and CAIR are seeking to have the amendment permanently struck down.

“This amendment is nothing more than a blatant attempt to subvert the Constitution by enshrining anti-Muslim bigotry into state law,” said Daniel Mach, Director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. “The idea that followers of an entire faith should be treated like second-class citizens is ugly, discriminatory and profoundly un-American.”

So maybe the solution here is for all of the Catholic hospitals to become Muslim. THEN, any attack on them would be considered discriminatory and un-American. The ACLU would have to sue itself. Their heads would explode.